Maryam Aalamian – Mattheis
Spiegel SPEZIAL, 2024

  • "Language problems, taboo subjects, prejudices:
    An Iranian-born urologist is familiar with the difficulties that men and women with a migration background encounter in German medical practices. Maryam Aalamian-Mattheis sees into corners of this society that many others in medicine do not. She learns things that remain hidden from many others.

    In her practice in Poppenbüttel, she has patients with and without a migration background, in Norderstedt almost only with. She can compare. What does she say? That compared to Poppenbüttel, a middle-class district in the north of Hamburg, she experiences the people in her practice in Norderstedt as "significantly sicker and more needy".

    This diagnosis, which is also a social diagnosis, is the subject of this interview. Her own experiences with migration, the experiences of the sick and also a study focusing on "racism and its symptoms" in the healthcare system, which was published almost six months ago."

    I accompanied Dr. Aalamian-Mattheis for a day at work.

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